skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is really cool! Thanks for sharing - going to give it a go.

Similarly, I took a stab not too long ago at attempting to replace my Dropbox [1] - I opted for an implementation using Git and FSWatch.

Pro: version control for your files

Con: more expensive and takes more storage

[1] https://sidia.li/simple-dropbox-alternative/
From personal experience: If your voice does not restore in a week or so, go see ENT. There might be multiple reasons for the acute chronic laryngitis and you want to exclude most dangerous ones: malignant tumor on larynx or in upper chest (pressing on one of the two nerves leading up to larynx - they loop down and up). In my case that was not a growth (malignant or benign) anywhere - confirmed by CT scans, but my right vocal fold was paralyzed and doctor could not find the reason other than offering hypothesis that the nerve was damaged by inflammation caused by a viral infection. The mobility and voice restored over the course of a week two months after the onset but it was a scary experience.
Just been going through your blog, and I'm in love with your Synchronome clock, which begs the question (apologies if this is answered somewhere):

Of all the clocks you own, what's your favourite and why?
I think his strongest direct statements on the dominion voting system is in this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUtmBrgIC9w

But you can also watch his commentary on the suitcase video
here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PchtaUsRH70&t=1s
3.125 x 10^50 planck time units...

That's actually a surprisingly round-ish number.
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This leak is much more harmful. If the data really comes from Serasa Experian, they have more accurate and structured data from people/companies/assets in Brazil than anyone else.
That's probably not a great visualization, since the actual football green is a tiny fraction of the stadium, and not even all of the actual pitch. The dinosaur is 40% of the length of the playable field, ignoring endzones and other buffer.

(don't get me wrong, it's still Very Large, but we're not talking Godzilla v Kong here)
I used to live in Ontario near where the only airworthy Lancaster lives. It's based out of Hamilton, and the Lanc is powered by inclines rather than radials but still an awesome sound. I got to ride in it once, it was a lifetime experience.
Thank you for your reply.

>The ballots were on camera in the room the entire time, if reporters had been sent home they still wouldn't have appeared out of a mystery suitcase. They were sealed on camera, then unsealed on camera, and counted on camera. They have been counted and recounted and recounted.

Here are the sworn affidavits that state the observers were too far to monitor what was being done with the boxes when they were brought in during the day [0].

>I don't know if reporters were "sent home" as you are claiming, or if they "left" as described by this video when election employees were initially closing up for the night, but either way the monitors and media saw those ballots go into the boxes and Giuliani was still lying about where they came from.

Here are the sworn affidavits of two poll watchers that say they were sent home [1]. This corroborates what David Shafer says happened that night [2]. Also ABC news reported the same, their source was Regina Waller [3].

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[0] https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.gand.284055...

[1] https://beta.documentcloud.org/documents/20420331-mitchell-h...

[2] https://twitter.com/DavidShafer/status/1325956840769859586?r...

[3] https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pipe-bursts-atlanta-arena-ca...
The government is made of people. It's inherently fallible and manages a lot of power. It's a recipe for disaster.

We're at this intermediate stage because the previous solution was to just give all the power to a bunch of people, likely the ones that killed more people.

Using elections instead of military power is an improvement over middle age, but you still have a bunch of people with a lot of power.

There's absolutely zero trust possible.

Maybe after western social democracies wreck the economy for the umpteenth time, people will try to remove power from governments until they disappear.
Colonizing the Solar system is slightly more attainable than mining asteroids, but yeah the energies involved are pretty massive.
Same here (minus the decades of programming experience, unfortunately ).

I have both the original Pocket and a Pocket 2 (both Linux), as well as a Win 2 (windows, gaming-only), and I love them.

Before the pandemic I used to use them very frequently to study (or game, with then Win 2) at coffeeshops because they use so little bag space and table space. Right now they're collecting a bit of dust mostly, but I hope that will change again once this whole situation is over.

I would have been interested in the Pyra when it was first announced (in fact, I did follow the project for a year or so when I first heard about it in 2016 or so), but at this point there are so many better (and similarly priced) alternatives out there that I have a hard time seeing who would be the target demographic. Still, I hope they will find some success with it since they seem to have their heart in the right place.
My point is that unvetted IP/code shouldn't be used in democratically critical processes such as elections in the fist place, doing so increases the surface area of bad actors to act maliciously.
Are you familiar with quarterly estimated taxes and the AMT rule?
> Most of the homeless in these cities are not interested in being apart of society

maybe they are not interested in being a part of our society because of how our society is organized, and if we changed our societal structure, they would be more willing or able to participate.
You think voting machines are suspect but just this one time there was nothing wrong with them?
They flagged my account and pulled 100% of my servers with no mitigation for 12 hours until I convinced them I was legitimate. DO still handles that incredibly poorly, which is the reason we no longer host anything critical there.
Over the past year and a half, we just went through this — growing more than 10x from $60K ARR. Our focus has been building a sustainable work-life balance for ourselves and our team.

Happy to share learnings and just be there as a sounding board if you need it. Email in bio :)

Congrats on the progress!
Here's the UK rules on spoilt ballots [1]. Here's [2] an article showing that such removed ballots sometimes get a larger share than a candidate, and that the rate is larger than the close state elections the US just had. Here's [3] some UK elections where 2.9% of all ballots were discarded because they were filled out wrong.

So I don't think the UK evidence shows what you claim it does. The smallest UK spoilt ballot error I can find is larger than the winning margins in many US places.

Finally, here's [4] one analysis of voting tech versus ballot spoilage rates that seems to reach similar conclusions of all the papers I scanned over. Hand edited paper is about the worst way to get valid ballots of any method in this study.

[1] https://www.votenone.org.uk/spoilt-ballot-results-2015.html

[2] https://www.votenone.org.uk/spoilt-ballot-results-2015.html

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2012/nov/19/spoilt-ballots-pc...

[4] https://www.hamilton.edu/news/florida/Klinkner%20Analysis.pd...
You going to blow up your enemies with a solar sail?
> People alleging election fraud should present evidence of it.

Agreed, which is exactly why the topic should not be verboten.
Can we stop submitting every random Apple related rumour to HN? :-/
> Ironically most people who run their own Kube clusters don't seem to have much workload diversity.

This has not been my experience at all, but most of my clients are big corporations/enterprises. It's not uncommon to have a cluster with hundreds or thousands of different services running, from front-end static file servers to CRUD apps to machine learning. Even the startups I've worked with had at least a handful of different services they ran on K8s.
Yeah, that sounds fine to me.

Not sure what your confusion is...
Actually, there were claims made about massive voter fraud in the 2016 election: When Trump could not stomach the fact that he lost the popular vote, he claimed that more than 3 million ineligible voters had voted for Clinton and that he had in fact won the popular vote.

There was even a voter-fraud commission set up to investigate the claims. They quietly disbanded.
From your home page I get the impression you only support having generated @owlmail.io email addresses. Is that accurate?

Does your system track which online service gets which email, or do you track that yourself in a password manager?
I am a rower. Mainly doubles and quads. So, not sweep oar.

Most rowing machines in gyms are set too "hard" water resistance does not mimic the setting most people use.

There is a rotational aspect in two planes no rowing machine i use mimics: the rotation around the oar gate, an arc of about 120 degrees, as you move forward and backwards, and the throttle twist of feathering the oars.

These limit the utility of dry rowing to me.

I've rowed in a static tank and its more "real" because your push is against water (you basically circulate water in a tank) and you get both feathering, and rowlock plane rotations

(In real rowing, your arm sweeps out a circular arc of the radius from the rowlock to your hands)
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I argue the concept. In my view using comedy to make fun of supposedly intellectually inferior people is despicable. We have a very similar show in Germany called "Tagesshow". Both are claiming a moral high ground while ridiculing political opponents.
Then you would expect darker regions of the world which have lower serum levels of vitamin D to have more sight problems, I don’t think that’s the case.
Thanks; this looks on point.
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Time-lapse of a single cell transforming into a salamander (2019)
> shaving even 10-20 milliseconds of latency on a data path can unlock finance and emergency capabilities

The financial upside is clear, but what kind of emergency capabilities do you mean?
Okay. Luxuary Space Age Communism it is. Everyone shall have all of the money.

(I skipped a few obvious steps.)
I’m a Biden supporter but I would love to see some actual sources for this fraud.
>It seems like you've already decided it's possible to find life "meaning" at work.

I have decided that the search for meaning at work is meaningful on its own even if I end up never finding a meaningful job. This is because I believe while searching for meaning in work I would have to try out new type of jobs through which I would discover more of me in general. But from a practical point of view I indeed believe that a person that is actively searching for a meaningful job will find it.
>A few years later, we caught up for a beer. He quit a few months after I did and got a job with the local government maintaining a wetland area near a large city. He was getting paid 65K per year and absolutely loved the work more than anything. He loved the fact he was actively saving something everyday and wasn't in an office.

Other than the above friend, I know exactly zero other people IRL that claim to have get significant "meaning" from work. Including myself.

Thanks for sharing this!
Yup. A very fair warning and unfortunate reality.

Luckily I fly like twice a year and it's never a plane that large.

As for irregular flights, I have had luck picking my route and carrier. It's possible to greatly minimize the chance you'll get a certain plane.

I heard some carriers will make special rules to let you refuse.
I have a "in-person catch all" address which is a different variation of my name @ my domain than my main inbox. Even that is enough to trip up the occasional hotel counter staff or similar when my name is in the domain rather than gmail/yahoo.
Love it. Your solution is much more polished and Dropbox like. Very nice!
No but it does make it less likely that they were lying, because of the penalty of jail time.
There are multiple layers of encoding to mitigate this. CCSDS [0] is very widely used for satellite communications, and a Google image search for CCSDS protocols [1] will give you a quick view of the protocol stack (which can vary a lot as different CCSDS protocols are used in different applications).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consultative_Committee_for_Spa...

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=ccsds+protocols&source=lnms&...

Edited to add: I'm not making any claims on what protocols Starlink uses specifically. Just describing the general approach.
I don't think it is advertising focused as much as it tries to give a path for monetization. You can use Brave's currency to pay content providers (website owners) to reward them for their creation. To me, that's the opposite of being focused on advertising, since it gives people a way to operate without relying on advertising as the sole monetization strategy. More at https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-earn-and-use-cryptocurre...
Amazing that the process went so smoothly and that there were so many resources for them to draw from. Jumping from 9 to 12 is quite a few major versions!

Also liked the couple of gotchas which go to show no matter how smooth a data migration is, there'll be some bumps.
Ask HN: Is your Git clone from GitHub taking forever?
Nothing wrong on Github's status page, however I'm the second co-worker to notice git clone taking forever despite our Internet connections being fine.
In California, you have: Social Security, re-entry services provided by the CCDR, EBT, Medicaid, cash through county assistance programs, and a large number of non profit providers of aid.
It's much worse than that. The leak contains dozens of datasets (relatives, addresses, jobs (+ linkedin), schools, vehicles, income, debts, pictures of faces, companies).
If your normalize getting it done and exclude people who don't from opportunities, you incentivize people who want to participate, not just in receiving the benefits, but in participating in the group.

I think of it much the same way I think of driver's licenses. I believe if you are driving on your own private property you don't need one. But if you are using public roads and putting people at risk, there's an expectation of training and the ability to revoke permission if you harm others.
Some laptops seem to be on sale now, and others were targeting January 26 as the release date. That being said, I do not know if there's an NDA from AMD or if all variations of the chips (i.e. H, U, HX, etc) will be available this month or over time in the next few months.

So I think there's a good chance in the next week or so we'll start seeing benchmarks.
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Can you expand on that? I store my backups on B2. Are you saying I can download all data via cloudflare without paying for B2 egress?
Hi niftylettuce – I'm working on something similar – Owl Mail [https://owlmail.io].

I've discovered some cool new products in this thread and Forward Email looks great. I'm glad there are other people out there working on solving this problem!
Part of the problem is that Republicanism has become a bit of a religion: public policy positions have been increasingly replaced with incoherent dogma. Republicans have been claiming for years, completely without merit, that Dominion has been involved in a variety of vote-changing schemes. It is highly doubtful that Giuliani ever even checked to determine where Dominion's machines were even being used before he started in on various conspiracy theories to keep Trump happy. He and Lin Woods and Sidney Powell made similar claims about Smartmatic, which only has one client in the United States: Los Angeles County.

Even so, the entire idea that a group of hucksters can completely annihilate the reputation of a company based on absolute nonsense from a bunch of angry losers is a bit frightening.
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Why are we letting tech companies treat us like children?

Once I confirm to them I'm an adult, I should be able to choose to see everything.
I don’t think their argument was particularly strong, and even if it was, disenfranchising 6 million voters who voted in good faith per their individual US Constitutional right would never be a sensical remedy for an error in procedure by officials.
> "Fine if you want to sell a device that does not allow for independent repair you product is not welcome in this state"

There's still a lot of wiggle-room in there - Apple, for example, could argue that they're fine with "repair" being for things like replacing "dumb" iPhone components like the display and battery, but because the T2 security chip is an encapsulated, irreducible, atomic, component of the phone that being non-repairable is a design feature as that's how it protects the user's private data (and Apple's DRM...) they shouldn't be legally compelled to release the details of the T2 chip.

...or something.
It isn't. They slap a warning label on clear falsehoods. (Not very effectively, I might add. If you think the subject can't be discussed on Twitter, you don't use Twitter much.)

Trump's suspension was for inciting violence.
Yes. But what is your confusion about it? Where are you objecting to what I said?
as a track marshal that routinely denies track entry (probably every single event) due to inappropriate battery mounting and wire mismanagement, these pictures terrify me.

It's a cute experiment with the kids, and i'm glad they got away without injury -- but on the other hand i've witnessed first hand what a lead battery that is floating around the cabin can do during a wreck -- and what I witnessed was, sadly, deadly for the driver.

single orientation nylon straps that are strapping heavy square objects against foam cushioned seats and sandwiching the chaos with human meat on both sides. It's a recipe for disaster regardless of what vector the force of the impact comes from -- and that's ignoring the batteries.

Please folks , when you drive a vehicle the heavy stuff gets strapped behind a bulkhead at the front or rear of the car, or atop the car with appropriate and well-tested strapping & mounting equipment.

Don't risk your life for the sake of convenience.
When I tried to inject fake daylight into my basement office, I realised just how "special" daylight is. It comes in from everywhere. Flood fills with so much light as such a broad spectrum.
The trick is that American ballots bombard their voters with dozens of questions and dozens of options. Judges, ballot initiatives, various functionaries, etc, which makes hand counted paper ballots impractical.

In parliamentary systems, you elect people so they can vote on those matters for you.
Hey folks, I built this tool while stepping out of my last role. I realized how weird it was to transfer over the accounts to someone else where I owned the 2FA. The only other option is to remove the two-factor authentication completely. Would love any feedback / thoughts on this.
Vision guides the growth of the eye: if spectacle lenses cause images to fall either behind or in front of the retina (hyperopia or myopia, respectively), eye growth compensates for the optical effects of the lenses

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom...
They say selling call options is "picking up pennies in front of a steamroller": most of the time you collect premium, and then occasionally you get run over by a steamroller. This is the steamroller.
It is "mostly unsubstantiated" because the thread makes multiple claims without proof. The bookmark pages on Google provide some evidence for one of the claims but it is, by no means, proof of the claim's validity.
Santa Clara County recently did a random assignment intervention to offer chronically homeless people free housing. There was no measurable difference in health outcomes (in fact, those provided housing died at higher rates). I am not convinced the housing first is as great as its proponents claim it is, though it does have an intuitive appeal (by definition, it’s the solution to homelessness! But what if homelessness is a symptom, not the disease?).
I think anytime you're getting the government involved to that degree you run the risk of it getting messed up even further, especially if the politicians realize they now have the keys to give themselves political advantage through information censorship, fraudulent accounts, etc.
Jacob Blake, himself, admitted he had a knife (prior to the video that is circulating) when he was fighting with cops. He did literally came at cops with a knife.

Shortly after that he went into the car where there was another knife. He already showed he was willing to do violence towards cops with a knife prior to the video so when he went for a second one they shot him.

I never meant to imply he was shot when he was coming at the cops with a knife. It is not clear based on the video if he was coming towards the cops right when he is shot. He was moving around in the car and may have made moves towards the cops, but I cannot tell based on the video.

To suggest there was no imminent danger is non-sense. Jacob Blake just struggled with cops while holding a knife.

Of course if you look at more than just a couple second video you would know this.
For the nose: try breathe right strips. I had chronic nasal congestion.

Not only did those help me breathe at night but they seemed to have helped my daytime breathing as I keep my nostrils open a bit wider. My average blood oxygen rose after starting.
Is their plan to lure some investors into paying $2.6B for them to go away forever, for the betterment of mankind?

/s
You want rules that run counter to every trend in technology. And believe that it can be done with government fiat.

I emphatically believe the opposite. Data collection, storage, and manipulation is ever becoming easier. The only actual choice is between a society where we're lied to about surveillance, or one where surveillance is generally available. https://www.amazon.com/Transparent-Society-Technology-Betwee... laid out the case for this over 20 years ago.

Here are the realistic choices.

On the one hand, we can create any set of rules we want on paper. We can get governments to officially support it. We can be frustrated as those same governments do it ineffectively. And then watch as the rules meant to curtail monopolies get caught by regulatory capture and are manipulated to support the very organizations that they are theoretically supposed to punish. (Seriously, do you expect any secret service to not take advantage of what is possible? Have you heard of Snowden?)

Or we can choose the path recommended in https://www.amazon.com/Transparent-Society-Technology-Betwee..., accept that surveillance is real. And put the tools in the hands of the masses. This is already happening. See https://asherkaye.medium.com/do-you-know-this-man-7836e54abc... for a story of how a random person in a random photo was tracked down by an internet stranger using reverse image search with facial recognition. And the tools are only getting better and harder to stop over time.

I personally hate both futures. But I hate the first one more. And I see people like you as unwitting pawns who are creating the first of those two futures. And your unwillingness to understand how things actually work, combined with your certainty that you've got the moral high ground, makes you an easily manipulated true believer.

Enjoy your certainty that you're in the right here. I guarantee that you'll have a lot to be upset about in the way that our world is shaping up.
83.29% of patients who died from COVID-19 had a comorbidity. As a patient’s number of comorbidities increased, so did the odds of dying from COVID-19.

https://www.ajmc.com/view/contributor-links-between-covid-19...
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I believe the Spain incident informed Gerry Anderson's decisions making "Thunderbirds" along with some more peaceable non weapons emergency collaborations